Last year marked a devastating low for butterflies in the UK, according to new figures from conservationists. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) found that more than half of the UK's butterfly ...
Conservationists in Britain have called for "landscape-wide" action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate ...
Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count next month, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ – is rising in numbers. The heath fritillary butterfly, nicknamed the ...
A Sept. 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows British media personality and political commentator Katie Hopkins discussing purported events in the U.K. "The butterfly population in the ...
Nik Shelton of the Wildlife Trust in Cambridgeshire on a partnership to help butterflies tackle climate change.
It comes as part of efforts to track butterfly species, which have suffered declines of more than 80% in the UK since the 1970s, with experts saying they have been hit by damage to their habitats, ...
Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate declines of nearly a fifth since the 1970s. The latest annual update on butterfly ...
A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. Biodiversity is in ...
Some butterfly species failed to thrive in the UK's hot summer after historical low numbers in 2024, a charity has said. The small white, large white and Jersey tiger moth were seen in record numbers ...
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